Debating Lapita : Distribution, Chronology, Society and Subsistence.

Intro -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Opening remarks by the Honourable Meltek Sato Kilman, Prime Minister of the Republic of Vanuatu at the opening ceremony of the Lapita Conference, Port Vila, 6-10 July 2015 -- Debating Lapita -- 1. Debating Lapita: Distribution, chronology, society and subsistence -- Distribution and chronology -- 2. The ceramic trail: Evaluating the Marianas and Lapita West Pacific connection -- 3. Moiapu 3: Settlement on Moiapu Hill at the very end of Lapita, Caution Bay hinterland -- 4. Kamgot at the lagoon's edge: Site position and resource use of an Early Lapita site in Near Oceania -- 5. Lapita: The Australian connection -- 6. A Lapita presence on Arop/Long Island, Vitiaz Strait, Papua New Guinea? -- 7. Early Lapita colonisation of Remote Oceania: An update on the leapfrog hypothesis -- 8. Small islands, strategic locales and the configuration of first Lapita settlement of Vanua Levu, northern Fiji -- 9. New dates for the Makekur (FOH) Lapita pottery site, Arawe Islands, New Britain, Papua New Guinea -- Society -- 10. A new assessment of site WKO013A of Xapeta'a (Lapita), New Caledonia -- 11. Lapita pottery from the small islands of north-east Malakula, Vanuatu: A brief overview and implications -- 12. Plaited textile expression in Lapita ceramic ornamentation -- 13. The hat makes the man: Masks, headdresses and skullcaps in Lapita iconography -- 14. A view from the west: A structural approach to analysing Lapita design in the Eastern Lapita Province -- 15. Measuring social distances with shared Lapita motifs: Current results and challenges -- 16. Along the roads of the Lapita people: Designs, groups and travels -- 17. Lapita to Post-Lapita transition: Insights from the chemical analysis of pottery from the sites of Teouma, Mangaasi, Vao and Chachara, Vanuatu -- Subsistence.

18. Early Lapita subsistence: The evidence from Kamgot, Anir Islands, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea -- 19. Green desert or 'all you can eat'? How diverse and edible was the flora of Vanuatu before human introductions? -- 20. Lapita maritime adaptations and the development of fishing technology: A view from Vanuatu -- 21. Lapita colonisation and avian extinctions in Oceania -- Beyond -- 22. Connecting with Lapita in Vanuatu: Festivals, sporting events and contemporary themes -- 23. Five decades of Lapita archaeology: A personal retrospective -- Contributors -- Appendix: Papers and posters presented at the Eighth International Lapita Conference, Port Vila, 6-10 July 2015.

This volume comprises 23 chapters that focus on the archaeology of Lapita, a cultural horizon associated with the founding populations who first colonised much of the south west Pacific some 3000 years ago.

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